Xinshun 1730

Chapter 543 Germination?cute ass
The poisonous plan of the Dutch, just like Tokugawa Yoshimune's alienation of Liu Yu, is an extremely disgusting public poisoning.

Even if no one believed it at the time, or if Tokugawa Yoshimune's letter was definitely impossible to break up at the time, what about the future?

Once there is an accident or something similar, someone will definitely translate these words.

Even if Shi Shiyong wanted to help Liu Yu, this matter was not discussed in private, but directly in front of so many people.

If he didn't say it, the emperor wouldn't be able to explain it.

Besides, what Valknir said was not completely false, this kind of poisoning by telling the truth is the most disgusting.

The East India Company has a vast market from Cape Town to Japan, with a labor force of only tens of thousands of Chinese. Such a large market cannot accommodate it, and it can create a situation of "relative surplus".

If Dashun wants to start a handicraft industry, how much market size will it need?
What's even more strange is that Dashun has the largest population in the world at this time. Since the Ming Dynasty, more than half of the world's silver has flowed in, but the consumption power of Dashun as a whole is surprisingly poor.Coupled with the small peasant economy in which men farm and women weave, the internal market is almost dead.

What happened in Batavia may eventually cast a shadow over the fledgling Dashun handicraft factory.

It also needs to make the emperor see the horror behind the beauty of these new things.

A month later, Shi Shiyong returned to the capital.

There was no other choice but to truthfully report what happened in Batavia, which naturally included Valknir's last words.

Even if he doesn't say it, someone else will.

The emperor didn't care too much about things other than these words.Everything was in accordance with the strategy set by the Privy Council, which completely pinched the lifeline of the Dutch, obeying the rhythm of the court like a Yuefu conducting a gala.

Shi Shiyong couldn't see the emperor's attitude towards the last words, but felt that the emperor seemed to care a lot. He not only listened to Shi Shiyong's retelling, but also asked about what Valkneer said, and looked carefully.

Actually... something similar happened to Dashun a few years ago.

Six years ago, a vigorous weaver strike broke out in Changzhou County, Suzhou Prefecture.

This was originally a small matter of a county.

But this kind of thing, from the county magistrate to the state shepherd, was all encountered for the first time, and they were suddenly confused and didn't know how to deal with it.

They have experience in dealing with peasant uprisings; they also have experience in handling petitions for permanent tenancy; they also have experience in dealing with merchant strikes.

The only thing that happened was the strike of the weavers. They were really inexperienced in this matter.

Never happened before, how to deal with it?

Moreover, the time when the weavers chose to strike was the time when various foreign companies came to order, so they had to report layer by layer, directly to the Forbidden City.

The whole matter was actually very simple. At that time, Liu Yu was still training troops in Weihai, so he had no chance to participate in the discussion at the court meeting.But with his common sense, he doesn't even need his brain, he knows what's going on with his butt.Whether it is asking for better treatment, or asking for an increase in wages, the demands of workers are nothing more than these.

The reason why the trouble came to the Forbidden City was also because at that time a machine owner named He Junheng, that is, a capitalist with looms and other means of production, asked the court to "restrict the stone forever and call it a rest."

He Junheng has a simple class consciousness, and he clearly feels that in the future, there will be more and more strikes of the whole industry in Suzhou, Songjiang and other places.

But the imperial court has never had a decree to guide how to deal with this kind of thing, so it is best to use this matter as a precedent, erect a monument, set a stone, and use it as a guiding precedent in the future.

As a machine owner, he didn't want similar incidents to happen again, and he didn't want the county magistrate, who had been friends with him on weekdays, to be at a loss.

The whole industry called for a break, and the county magistrate didn't dare to do it easily, for fear of causing a big incident.

The imperial court finally came forward and sent someone to erect an inscription in Suzhou Mansion.

It is conceivable that the inscription is roughly divided into two parts.

The first part, the reason why this is called a strike, must be that there are bad people among the weavers, with evil intentions and sinister intentions.

However, most people are good, deceived and unaware of the truth.

Therefore, the first part says: [A certain lawless person, ignorant of work, was abandoned by his family, so jealous, he advocated fame and sex for help, coerced the public to call him off, Le Jiayin, and suspended the owner from his job. Craftsman waste...]

The second part is definitely how to solve it.

But this era is not the American mine railway in the 19th century. In the mechanical age, just a few people can be arrested, and those who dare to make trouble will be killed by the company's gunmen.

At this time, it was a handicraft factory, and weavers needed skills.

This is not the steam engine textile factory of the later generations, where you can operate the machine by grabbing a package worker.Those who can weave silk cloth are considered technical jobs at this time, so they cannot be killed yet.

We had to compromise, and changed from the original daily wages to piecework wages; every year on the first day of June, the first day of July, and the fifteenth day of August, the operator will give the mechanic an extra penny as a benefit.

From daily calculations to piece-rate wages, and then to the benefits of drinking money, the overall salary can be regarded as an increase in wages, and this matter is resolved in this way.

In the end, the imperial court, He Junheng and other capitalists, representatives of weavers and several other parties erected an inscription in Suzhou Mansion together.

The stele reads:
Afterwards, if there are lawbreakers who dare to coerce the crowd to call it a rest, and those who try to extort money from them, such as people from neighbors and households in Xudi, they will immediately turn around and report to the local judge.It should be dealt with in accordance with the [Law of Controlling the Market], and the shackles will be issued for another month as an example.

The most important point of this inscription lies in the research site of [controlling the market law].

Because, there has never been a similar incident of calling for a break before, even if the county magistrate judged the case against He Junheng, the weavers in the entire Suzhou government could not stand the strike, and the county magistrate was afraid that something big would happen, but it was also a headache.

According to what law?

After looking through "Da Shun Law" for a long time, I didn't find a similar situation, let alone how to deal with the Qi Xing called Xie incident.

But after the inscription is erected, there will be laws to follow.

Shun inherited the Ming system, and Dashun basically copied the crime of "Hulu · Shili · Controlling the Market" in "Daming Law".

The "Hulu · Shili · Controlling the Market" law ranks 149th in the "Dashun Law" and has 15 small items under its jurisdiction.

Including dental trade, foreign trade monopoly, anti-fraud in North Korea and Ryukyu tribute trade, extortion in the middle of water transportation, stealing and selling semi-official horses by government soldiers, trade rules at the junction of Han and Miao, yamen and official sales, etc.

Complete, basically quite complete.It's just a bit behind the times.

For example, the current buying and selling system of the trading company in Songjiang, such as the buying and contracting of Ezo, is completely out of the question, and can only be handled on a special basis.

According to the terms of the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", there are basically three ways to deal with the "crime of controlling the market".

Eighty rods.

If you don't give money or bribes, if you do it properly, you will die.

Forty lashes.

This one couldn't die at the time, but it was basically the same.

Large areas of welts on the back, lack of treatment, will soon be infected with staphylococcus, and finally "gangrene and die".

Finally, there is "such as theft theory".

As for how to decide the case later, it is very clear.

For example, the premise of the crime of theft is that the profit is obtained by illegal means in the trade transaction, and if it is in the hands, it does not work if the stolen goods are returned, and it will be dealt with as the crime of theft.

Then, if the weavers call for a break in the same line in the future, and win, and strive for benefits such as wage increases, they will all be dealt with according to the crime of theft under the law of "manipulating the market" "like theft theory".

According to the provisions of the "Da Shun Law", those who attempt to steal will be whipped forty times.

But if the strike has been successful and the wages have been increased, it is not considered an attempted theft.

The money has been received, and the wages have been increased, so it must have been accomplished.

At the same time, the ancient Chinese law stipulated the amount of the crime of theft. For example, ten people partnered and stole 100 yuan. sin to condemn.

Therefore, once the call-off is successful, and each person raises one penny, then 1000 people in the whole industry will be considered a grand theft of 100 taels.

"According to the crime, steal a hundred taels of silver, flow three thousand miles to guard the border, avoid tattooing, and forty sticks."

Basically, after this incident, the cost of calling for a rest has increased on a large scale.No one wants to end up in exile for three thousand miles.

This incident is not only a proof of the so-called germination, but also a proof that the imperial court does not understand what a new era is, and there is even no special legislation.

The old "Da Shun Law" was patched and continued to be used, and the law about "controlling the market" in the patched "Da Shun Law" was copied from the "Da Ming Law".

In "Laws of the Ming Dynasty", the law on controlling the market is copied from "Shu Yi of Tang Laws".

Basically, it can be regarded as hitting people today with a stick thousands of years ago, and it is time to swing it to the Western Regions or Wanli Buddha Kingdom.

Now that Shi Shiyong spread Batavia's words again, the emperor naturally thought of the weaver's call to rest a few years ago.

He had to summon Liu Yu, the Shangshu of the Criminal Government, and the Shangshu of the Household Government to his side.

Li Gan didn't summon Liu Yu alone to inquire about this matter, nor did he come up and ask how to solve similar things if they happened in Dashun.

After everyone had arrived, they turned to the Secretary of the Criminal Government, if what happened to Batavia happened in Dashun, how should they be sentenced and what kind of crime should they be?
Liu Yu stood there as if he had fallen asleep, and the emperor didn't ask, and he didn't speak.Or, he didn't take it seriously at all.

The emperor asked the minister of the criminal government, and the minister of the criminal government first talked from a professional point of view: "Your Majesty, I believe that the first crime in this matter should be the contractor of the sugar factory."

"If in this dynasty, the head is concealed, the small tax is refused, and the amount is relatively large, it will be used as a staff of eighty, and the outstanding amount will be recovered."

"But this matter... If this is really done, the minister will definitely give the local county magistrate a bad review of 'Assessment B' when he waits for the evaluation. Basically, his career in this life will come to an end. If this is the case Do it, the sugar factory will close down, and the hired workers will cause trouble, and there will be chaos. This is only knowing the law but not flexible, and it is really embarrassing."

"However, if we turn a blind eye to this matter, something will happen sooner or later."

"So the local county magistrate mostly thinks that as long as there is no accident during my tenure, it will be fine, and he will not pierce this layer of window paper, leaving it to the later people to solve it, as long as there is no accident in my hands."

"In the end, the more pressure there is, the bigger the incident will be in the future. Sooner or later, there will be bad luck, but it's just not me."

"However, since the Ding tax has been exempted in this dynasty, there is no need to consider this matter. But businessmen are immoral in seeking profit, and most of them will squeeze. If the squeeze is too severe, even if there is no Ding tax, hired workers will still make trouble."

"So, this matter... has no solution."

"The best way is not to open sugar factories and so on. This is called the permanent solution."

"Alternatively, the old system of "Zhou Li" will be restored, and all will be closed to the official camp, and then the official craftsmen will be assigned to the craftsmen, and they will be under special jurisdiction."

After the Minister of the Criminal Government answered the emperor's words, he glanced at Liu Yu quietly, and added: "Your Majesty asks, and I can answer. As for whether to do it or not, it is not up to the minister to advise. Whether it is His Majesty's holy order, or All the people in the Temple of Heaven's Blessing."

The emperor knew that the Minister of the Criminal Government was trying to be a good man, so he didn't care. He looked at Liu Yu with a smile, and said, "Have you prepared thousands of sentences in your stomach to refute after hearing this? Let me think about it. What kind of words are you going to use. Hmmm... You can't eat because of choking? These four words must be on your lips, right?"

(End of this chapter)